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Nov 2014
What's better than a second opinion? A dozen.
Nattr is a platform that conveniently crowdsources text responses.
• Ask your friends, the crowd, or a bit of both
• Need a response fast? Send your message anonymously out to everyone
• Bit of a charmer? Add your own responses
What's better than a second opinion? A dozen.
Investor
Sep 2012
Simple, intuitive and elegant. Summly redefines news for the mobile world with algorithmically generated summaries from thousands of sources. Innovative gestures, animations and great summaries make reading the news fun: easy to use, easy to scan, easy to read, clear and concise.
Nick D’Aloisio launched Summly in December 2011 as a tech summarization prototype that garnered significant interest worldwide. With backing from Horizons Ventures, and help from many NLP and AI experts around the world, Nick and the Summly team have been able to further develop summarization technology, the first result being the new Summly mobile news app.
Summly has developed a technology with SRI and the top NLP scientists in the world that automatically summarizes natural language into coherent paragraphs. Summly's investors include Li Ka-Shing, Rupert Murdoch, Stephen Fry, Yoko Ono, Ashton Kutcher, Brian Chesky, Mark Pincus, Josh Kushner Joanna Shields, Vivi Nevo and a host of others.
Summly launched in November 2012 and received Apple's Award for Best Apps of 2012 for Intuitive Touch, as well as being featured in over 50 countries as App of the Week. Over 90 million summaries have been read by Summly's users.
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Oct 2011
Based in London, Orlebar Brown was founded by Adam Brown and launched in March 2007 as a tailored approach to men’s swim shorts. OB Classic swim shorts remain the original and best ‘short you can swim in’, offering something you can wear on the beach or by the pool, yet smart enough to wear to lunch or for a drink. All OB Classic swim shorts are guaranteed for five years for quality you can truly believe in.
In 2010, they progressed from beach to resort with a full range of holiday clothes that can also be incorporated into everyday wardrobes, including polos, chinos and shirts. In addition, they offer a Design Your Own service which enables you to create your own bespoke pair of photographic swim shorts using the #SnapShorts app in-store or online.
Orlebar Brown has grown into a global brand with an ever-increasing number of international stores, an enviable list of stockists and a burgeoning expansion into ready-to-wear.
Investor
Mar 2007
Teads Holding Co. (“Teads”) (Nasdaq: TEAD) is a leading omnichannel advertising platform focused on driving outcomes for brand and performance advertisers across screens. With a focus on meaningful business outcomes for branding and performance objectives, Teads drives value by leveraging predictive AI technology to connect quality media, beautiful brand creative, and context-driven addressability and measurement. Teads is directly partnered with more than 10,000 publishers and 20,000 advertisers globally. The company is headquartered in New York, New York with a global team of around 1700 people in 30+ countries.
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2014
Investor
Nov 2014
What's better than a second opinion? A dozen.
Nattr is a platform that conveniently crowdsources text responses.
• Ask your friends, the crowd, or a bit of both
• Need a response fast? Send your message anonymously out to everyone
• Bit of a charmer? Add your own responses
What's better than a second opinion? A dozen.
2012
Investor
Sep 2012
Simple, intuitive and elegant. Summly redefines news for the mobile world with algorithmically generated summaries from thousands of sources. Innovative gestures, animations and great summaries make reading the news fun: easy to use, easy to scan, easy to read, clear and concise.
Nick D’Aloisio launched Summly in December 2011 as a tech summarization prototype that garnered significant interest worldwide. With backing from Horizons Ventures, and help from many NLP and AI experts around the world, Nick and the Summly team have been able to further develop summarization technology, the first result being the new Summly mobile news app.
Summly has developed a technology with SRI and the top NLP scientists in the world that automatically summarizes natural language into coherent paragraphs. Summly's investors include Li Ka-Shing, Rupert Murdoch, Stephen Fry, Yoko Ono, Ashton Kutcher, Brian Chesky, Mark Pincus, Josh Kushner Joanna Shields, Vivi Nevo and a host of others.
Summly launched in November 2012 and received Apple's Award for Best Apps of 2012 for Intuitive Touch, as well as being featured in over 50 countries as App of the Week. Over 90 million summaries have been read by Summly's users.
2011
Investor
Oct 2011
Based in London, Orlebar Brown was founded by Adam Brown and launched in March 2007 as a tailored approach to men’s swim shorts. OB Classic swim shorts remain the original and best ‘short you can swim in’, offering something you can wear on the beach or by the pool, yet smart enough to wear to lunch or for a drink. All OB Classic swim shorts are guaranteed for five years for quality you can truly believe in.
In 2010, they progressed from beach to resort with a full range of holiday clothes that can also be incorporated into everyday wardrobes, including polos, chinos and shirts. In addition, they offer a Design Your Own service which enables you to create your own bespoke pair of photographic swim shorts using the #SnapShorts app in-store or online.
Orlebar Brown has grown into a global brand with an ever-increasing number of international stores, an enviable list of stockists and a burgeoning expansion into ready-to-wear.
2007
Investor
Mar 2007
Teads Holding Co. (“Teads”) (Nasdaq: TEAD) is a leading omnichannel advertising platform focused on driving outcomes for brand and performance advertisers across screens. With a focus on meaningful business outcomes for branding and performance objectives, Teads drives value by leveraging predictive AI technology to connect quality media, beautiful brand creative, and context-driven addressability and measurement. Teads is directly partnered with more than 10,000 publishers and 20,000 advertisers globally. The company is headquartered in New York, New York with a global team of around 1700 people in 30+ countries.
2000
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